Concise hierarchy

(Kingdom) Animalia - (Phylum) Chordata - (Class) Reptilia - (Order) Falconiformes - (Family) Cathartidae

Excluded, by definition, from branch-based clade

†Proterochampsia (Clade) Bonaparte 1971 [Kischlat 2002]

Ref: S.J. Nesbitt, 2011: 191 [Kischlat, 2002].

Original position

Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758

Original entries

Vultur aura Linnaeus, 1758
Vultur barbatus Linnaeus, 1758
Vultur gryphus Linnaeus, 1758
Vultur harpyja Linnaeus, 1758
Vultur papa Linnaeus, 1758
Vultur perenopterus Linnaeus, 1758

Current position

Cathartidae (Family) Lafresnaye, 1839

Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 93.

Alternative positions

Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: [von] Linné, C., 1766: 121.
Cathartinae (Subfamily) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 133.
Vulturinae (Subfamily) Illiger, 1811	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1964: 253.

Historical positions

Cathartidae (Family) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: E.C. Dickinson, 2003: 93.
Cathartinae (Subfamily) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley, 1993: 133.
Cathartidae (Family) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: C.M. Perrins, 1991 (1990): 369.
Cathartidae (Family) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: W.J. Bock, 1982: 976.
Cathartidae (Family) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: E. Mayr & G.W. Cottrell, 1979
Cathartidae (Family) Lafresnaye, 1839	Ref: B. Grzimek et al., 1973 (1968): 582.
Vulturinae (Subfamily) Illiger, 1811	Ref: P. Brodkorb, 1964: 253.
Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. a Linné, 1766: 117, 121.
Accipitres (Order) Linnaeus, 1758	Ref: C. Linnaeus, 1758: 83, 86. [new taxon]

Number of Subtaxa

2025	Available in Systema Naturae 2000	1s
1989-present	Systema Naturae 2000	[1s]
2003	E.C. Dickinson	[1s]
1993	B.L. Monroe Jr. & C.G. Sibley	[1s]
1991 (1990)	C.M. Perrins	[1s]
1758	C. Linnaeus	[6s]